Olive Wreath Head of an Ancient Greek Olympic Winner on Ionic Column - pure Bronze Sculpture

Condition: New, Made in Greece.
Material: Pure Bronze
Height: 28 cm - 11 inches
Width: 7 cm - 2,8 inches
Length: 4 cm - 1,6 inches
Weight: 740 g
The ancient Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin. The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule, until the emperor Theodosius I, who having been converted to Christianity, banned pagan festivals. He banned the Olympics in AD 394 as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the State religion of Rome. The games were held every four years, or Olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies.
The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. Of the three classical canonic orders, the Ionic order has the narrowest columns.
The Ionic capital is characterized by the use of volutes. The Ionic columns normally stand on a base which separates the shaft of the column from the stylobate or platform while the cap is usually enriched with egg-and-dart.
The ancient architect and architectural historian Vitruvius associates the Ionic with feminine proportions (the Doric representing the masculine)
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